B1.1 Cells

A series of lessons to support teaching of B1.1 on the new 9-1 GCSE specification including microscopes, animal and plant cells, specialised cells, diffusion and osmosis.

Some parts will need adapting for your own classes.

Lesson 1 - Microscopes 1 and then Microscopes Part 2 if needed
Lesson 2 - Animal and Plant Cells with a cut and stick activity
Lesson 3 - Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic (unable to upload resource from AQA due to copyright)
Lesson 4 - Specialised Cells in Animals (i printed off the slides for each of the cells and put students into groups to be experts on their given cell and then rearranged the groups so that there was an expert on each cell in a group and they had to teach each other )
Lesson 5 - Specialised Cells in Plants (i again printed off the slides of the cells but this time I stuck them around the room and they moved around teaching themselves or working with a partner)
Lesson 6 - Diffusion (demonstration of spraying air freshener around the room whilst students closed their eyes to avoid copying others! - check for asthmatics!!. 3 students stood at the front with me and watch the order of hands go up). Practical involving beetroot in this lesson with hot and cold water
Lesson 7 - Osmosis Practical using starch solution and cellophane acting as the membrane
Lesson 8 - Osmosis practical using potato - 2 similar methods for different ability classes
Lesson 9 - Turgor in Plants - involves a comic trip activity
Lesson 10 - unable to upload due to copyright but did some ‘how science works’ bits on the osmosis practical
Lesson 11 - active transport (no information sheet available due to copyright)
Lesson 12 - exchanging materials (no information sheet available due to copyright)